Chap. 382.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1243 of the code so as to allow
the counties of Floyd, Carroll and Graysun to subscribe to the capital stock of
the Blue hidge railruad colmpany.

Approved February 17, 1898.

1. Beit enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
one thousand two hundred and forty-three, chapter fifty-one of the code
of Virginia, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows for the
counties of Floyd, Carroll, and Grayson.

§ 1243. The county courts of said counties of Floyd, Carroll, and
Grayson, at the request of the president or any two of the directors of
the said Blue Ridge railroad company, may make and enter an order re-
quiring the sheriff and judges of election in their said counties, ata
time to be designated in said order, not less than thirty days from date
of said order, to open the polls at each voting precinet in said county,
and take the sense of the qualified voters on the question whether or not
the board of supervisors shall subscribe the amount stated in said order,
not exceeding the sum of two hundred thousand dollars, by the said
county to the capital stock of the said Blue Ridye railroad company.
The election herein provided for shall be held according to law in force
at the time of holding said election; except so far as it may be modified
and amended by this act.

2. Provided that thirty days prior to every election held under this
act, the said Blue Ridge railroad company shall deposit with the county
court of the county in which said election is to be held a sum suflicient
to cover the costs of said election.

3. All acts or parts of acts inconsistent with this act are hereby re-
pealed.

This act shall be in force from its passage.